Influenza is affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Japan and rising rapidly among that nation's population of 124.5 million and overwhelming many healthcare providers and drugmakers.

As an unusually strong wave of flu infections spreads across Japan this winter, experts have shared tips with the Mainichi ...

Two of the three chicken farms are in the city of Handa and the other is in the city of Tokoname. The quail farm is located ...

Japan in the last week of December experienced the biggest influenza outbreak since comparable data became available 25 years ago, health authorities said Thursday.

Japan reported first bird flu outbreak of the season in October 2024 after several chickens were found dead at a poultry farm in Hokkaido. After the detection of the highly pathogenic strain of ...

In November, around 2,500 chickens were culled after an outbreak of the virus was reported on a farm in Gyoda city’s Saitama prefecture. The environment ministry raised the bird flu alert to its ...

So far in January, as many as 13 bird flu cases have been confirmed at chicken farms across the country, including multiple ...

Japan's medical institutions dealing with emergency patients are struggling with the spread of influenza as their beds are often filled to capacity.

Japanese authorities have begun culling another 50,000 chickens following the confirmation of a bird flu outbreak at a poultry farm in the northern Iwate region. This marks the 19th outbreak of ...

Cases of flu often rise in the winter in Japan and elsewhere, but some countries have seen large jumps in cases recently including in France and Britain. Australia logged more than 350,000 ...